Watson And Crick is a photograph by Harald Ritsch which was uploaded on July 7th, 2016.
Watson And Crick
Watson and Crick. Illustration of the molecular biologists and discoverers of the structure of DNA James Watson (born 1928, right) and Francis Crick... more
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Watson And Crick
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Harald Ritsch
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Watson and Crick. Illustration of the molecular biologists and discoverers of the structure of DNA James Watson (born 1928, right) and Francis Crick (1916-2004), with a DNA strand wrapping around them. Watson, an American, and Crick, British, met at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, in 1951. Their work on DNA was performed with a knowledge of Chargaff's ratios of the bases in DNA and access to the X-ray crystallography of Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin at King's College London. Combining this knowledge led to the deduction that DNA exists as a double helix. Crick, Watson and Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, Franklin having died in 1958.
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July 7th, 2016